“I Just found a few more cuts from CHOV chov-longer_sample.mp3”
Rick, I had to rattle my head on hearing this 2nd lot…recognised the first 2-3 cuts but couldn't
place them at first…(brain tries to go back 38 years to one single obscure tape dub…)
But I think they are from the slightly bizarre Pepper-Tanner early 1970s effort (“Reachin' Out…”)
which deliberately used “WABC” on the demo, with a slightly “not quite the same” version of the
WABC logo, even though everyone knew WABC was contracted to PAMS. (I'm sure TC could
put me right on any errors I may make on this?)
The cuts (mostly) all had the lyric “Reachin' Out, Touchin' You” (shades of Neil Diamond?)
The originals on the demo were also bizarre because each cut had a somewhat pointless bland
moog-y 7-note pad thing AFTER the end of the vocals, at a time when the “acapella ending”
instead of the “chord hit” was the way cuts were being produced then. If I remember correctly,
the demo had psuedo-airchecks of the cuts but the record intros would start at the end of the
jingle vocal so that the moog bit literally crashed over the front of the record.
Judging by the CHOV re-sings, perhaps like a lot of Tanner's (ahem) “not very successful”
packages of that era, I would say the cuts were re-jigged as shorter versions under different
names (c.f. “Brave New World”, which sounded like James Taylor, which got chopped-up and
re-branded as a Country package, or “Odyssey 70” which also came out in a “tighter” version
called “Good Thing” (e.g. KWNO Winona for anyone here over the age of 30!).
IainJohnston
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Barras
radio_bloke
joejingles
dreke61
theniceguy
df559
nostalgie
TServo2049
topcat